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GENERAL PART
SECTION II. CRIME
CHAPTER 4. Persons Who Are Liable to Criminal Liability
Article 24. Criminal Incapacity
(1) A person shall not be subject to criminal liability, who, at the time when committing a socially dangerous act, was in a state of irresponsibility, i.e. could not account for his actions or direct them as a consequence of a chronic mental disease, temporary mental derangement, weak-mindedness or other state of mental disease.
(2) Compulsory measures of medical character prescribed by the present Code may be imposed on a person who committed an especially dangerous act in a state of irresponsibility.
(3) A person shall not be subject to a sentence, who committed a crime in the state of responsibility but before passing a sentence has fallen ill with a mental disease and he was not able to realize the danger of his act (omission) or direct them. Compulsory measures of medical character may be inflicted upon such person, but after his recovery he may be liable to punishment.